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This website is being renovated throughout 2008.
Pages and the content of pages will continue to change until the end of the year and
there may be some inconsistencies and missing links. Please
do not quote from or link to specific pages (apart from the home page)
without contacting the webmaster first.
Does the world sometimes seem crazy?
Terrorists and politicians claim to talk to God, laws and moral codes are based on bigotry and superstition, science is called fiction and fiction called science.
Welcome to
God would be an atheist,
where reason and humanity prevail...
The site is divided into three main sections:
• a step-by-step investigation into the possible existence of God
start at How to Reason
or Defining God
• opinion columns on issues of religion, morality and politics
start at Blog or
Opinion Archive
• resources on reasoning and atheism
under development
Or, if you are in a hurry, go straight to Instant Atheism!!!
Instant Atheism!!!
Believers offer hundreds of arguments to "prove" that God exists, but they all boil
down to four basic points - and each of these points is easily refuted. It takes only ten minutes
to become an Instant Atheist.
Old men and young women
The insistence of the Roman Catholic Church that men
like Cardinal Keith O'Brien - who
theoretically never have sex and who have little or no understanding of the complexities of sex - have the right to meddle in the
lives of millions of women is highly immoral.
The GWBAA blog
Learn to reason
The ability to reason is humanity's greatest talent.
The more effectively we think, the more clearly we understand ourselves
and the world around us.
How to reason
Sibling rivalry in the Middle East
Religion has been the cause - or rationale - for war for at least a
thousand years. The current focus of hostilities is Israel-Palestine.
Jews and Arabs are ethnic, linguistic and cultural siblings with
more to unite than divide them. Only religion drives them apart.
Why not Hawaii?
We will all be atheists
As many as 20% of the human race may be unbelievers.
Two hundred years ago, fewer than 2% would have seriously considered the idea that the universe was God-free.
A natural state
Protect the children
Every adult has the right to believe in or worship the god or gods of their choosing.
Every child should have the right to be protected from religion until they are mature enough
to understand it.
Adults only
Do aliens know about the crucifixion?
The possible existence of intelligent species elsewhere
in the universe raises important theological questions.
Has God revealed himself to these alien beings?
And if so, how did he do so?
Jesus in space
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A false friend
Faith is the absence and denial of reason. Faith is guesswork. Faith is emotion grasping at straws. Faith tells us what we want to hear. Faith is not a window into truth and the world that surrounds us
but a mirror that turns inwards, reflecting only our own fears and longings.
Reason and faith
How many gods?
In the Bible there's only one God, right? Actually, no, there's a whole family and
Yahweh is not the most powerful one.
Meet the family
God's evolution
God started off as a pantheon - many gods
who were immortal but
not all-powerful. Later he merged into one omnipotent being, closely
involved with the human race. By the eighteenth century he was the
creator of the universe, but uninvolved with his creation.
Fading away
How did the koala get to Australia?
Fundamentalist and creationist Christians believe the Bible is literally true, but
many stories in it never occurred. One is the
story of the Flood. How many contradictions you can spot?
Noah's impossible Ark
The bloodthirsty God
The Jewish / Christian God claims to be compassionate but
he frequently rejoices in death and destruction.
He also often encourages his followers to kill.
The mask of compassion
Myth or morality?
Morality does not exist outside human experience.
The tides ebb and flow, the sun rises, rain falls, volcanoes erupt,
plants grow and are eaten by herbivores,
herbivores are eaten by carnivores and
the dead bodies of carnivores return to the earth
in one form or another to feed the next generation of plants.
True morality
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If God existed, he would...
admire the beauty of a universe that he did not create
recognize that eternity is meaningless
deny both heaven and hell
disown all men and women who speak in his name
denounce the harm caused by religious "morality"
help the human race to thrive without him
If God existed, he would be an atheist.
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